Saffron Sauce For Fish Spain Food

LEMON BUTTER SAUCE FOR FISH

Steps:

• Melt the butter and add remaining sauce ingredients.
• Pour sauce over tilapia filets.
• Bake at 350F for 20-30 minutes.
• Serve with rice.

SAFFRON SAUCE

Steps:

• Melt clarified butter in a pan and add the onion.
• When onion turns translucent add garlic and stir.
• Add white wine and let simmer.
• Keep one TB cream back, add the rest to the pan. Let reduce sauce until desired consistency is reached.
• Dissolve the saffron threads in the remaining TB of cream and add to the sauce.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• Serve.

SAFFRON SAUCE FOR FISH - SPAIN

Steps:

• Dissolve the saffron in heated fish stock that uses white wine and a little vinegar.
• Make a roux with hlaf the butter (or 1/4 cup) and the flour. Moisten with the stock, adding stock until the consistency is just as thick as whipping cream.
• Soften the peppers with the garlic in the remaining butter over low heat. When they are soft, add this to the sauce and simmer for 10 minutes.
• Pour in the cream, Madeira and lemon juice.
• Add juices from the fish you are cooking to use this sauce with, for maximum flavor and so as not to be wasteful!

BUTTER SAFFRON SAUCE

Steps:

• Combine shallots, white wine, and vinegar in a small, heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat until the liquid has evaporated, about 5 minutes. Whisk in heavy cream, reduce heat to low and simmer until the mixture is reduced by half, about 10 minutes.
• Remove the sauce from heat and whisk in the butter, little by little, until smooth. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Add saffron. Keep sauce warm over a double boiler until serving.

SAFFRON SEAFOOD SOUP

Steps:

• - Add the olive oil in a sauce pan and fry on low heat the onion, garlic and celery.
• - When the onion becomes golden, add the tomatoes and the glass of white wine, and cook for approximately 5 minutes.
• - Add the bay leaf, stock and saffron, bring to boil, reduce the heat, cover with the lid and simmer during 25 minutes.
• - Cut the pollock in pieces of approximately 2 cm, peel the scampi leaving the tail and making a shallow cut along the back. Add the pollock and the scampis to the soup and cook for 5 minutes.
• - Season with salt and pepper according to taste.
• - Serve with parsley on top.

ALMOND-CRUSTED FISH WITH SAFFRON SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Season the fish and spread a little butter over the flesh side of each. Put in a shallow, buttered, ovenproof dish and sprinkle with the flaked almonds, lightly pressing them on. Bake for 12-15 mins until the flesh flakes easily.
• Meanwhile, make the sauce. Gently fry the shallot with a small knob of butter in a small pan. Add the stock and saffron, bring to the boil, then boil until reduced by about two-thirds. Stir in the crème fraîche and bubble for a minute or so until slightly thickened. Pour a little sauce around each portion of fish. Lovely served with tiny, buttered new potatoes and green beans, or a fresh green salad.

COD WITH SAFFRON SAUCE

Steps:

• Put the oil, salt, parsley, garlic, saffron, and lemon juice into a pan broad enough to hold the fish slices side by side.
• Cook, stirring, over low heat for 2 to 3 minutes.
• Add the fish slices, turning them to coat both sides with the seasoning mixture.
• Cover the pan and cook gently.
• When the surfaces of the fish slices turn white, after about 10 minutes, turn over the slices and moisten them with hot water.
• Bring to a boil, and serve immediately.